Ramanujan sums and rectangular power sums

  • John Shareshian
  • , Sheila Sundaram

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Abstract

For a fixed nonnegative integer u and positive integer n, we investigate the symmetric function ∑d|n(cd([Formula Presented]))upd[Formula Presented], where pn denotes the nth power sum symmetric function, and cd(r) is a Ramanujan sum, equal to the sum of the rth powers of all the primitive dth roots of unity. We establish the Schur positivity of these functions for u=0 and u=1, showing that, in each case, the associated representation of the symmetric group Sn decomposes into a sum of Foulkes representations, that is, representations induced from the irreducibles of the cyclic subgroup generated by the long cycle. We also conjecture Schur positivity for the case u=2.

Original languageEnglish
Article number107575
JournalJournal of Pure and Applied Algebra
Volume228
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2024

Keywords

  • Arithmetic function
  • Foulkes representation
  • Power sum
  • Ramanujan sum
  • Schur positivity
  • von Sterneck function

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